Re: [HACKERS] A small type extension example for the contrib directory (fwd)

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> >> I think this would be great as a standard tyoe. Many people wn't poke
> >> around n the source tree looking for neat things like this, but would
> >> gain even greater respect for Postgres if they found it in the default
> >> system. Remember we know have a lot of people installing RedHat inux,
> >> and being presented with Postgres as the default SQL server.
> >>
> >> I would like to see them impressed by the functionality. Many of these
> >> people will probably want to do table with network parmaters in them.
> >>
> >> I recomend making it a standard type.
> >
> >OK, I can be swayed to make it standard.
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> Great. While I don't believe in creeping featureisim, I do think the
> razor to slice a feature against, is whehter it is usefuel in more than
> a narrow band of specilized applications. For example I defnately think
> we should allow tems in the ORDER BY clause that are not in the
> SELECT.

Yes, I agree we should allow ORDER BY not in the select list, but
because it is not part of the standard, it remains on the TODO list.

I am even removing the '?' from the end of the item:

* Remove restriction that ORDER BY field must be in SELECT list

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Bruce Momjian
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